Pieced fur goods



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United States Patent PIECED FUR GOODS Jack G. Wolff, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application April 30, 1952, Serial No. 285,157

3 Claims. (CI. 69-22) This invention relates to furs, and particularly to furs in which a plurality of fur skins are used to provide the strips that make up the completed article, such as a stole, coat, cape, or scarf.

Examples of skins of this character are mink, ermine, muskrat, or squirrel. These are manipulated in a well understood manner to provide elongated strips sewn together to form the complete article. Due to the gradations or striations of color along different longitudinal areas of such skins, a pleasing efiect is produced. This is particularly noticeable for such skins as mink.

It is one of the objects of this invention to improve the appearance of fur articles, and especially by providing a greater contrast in the depth or kind of color between the longitudinal edges of the skins.

It is another object of this invention to improve, in general, the quality of fur articles.

This invention possesses many other advantages, and has other objects which may be made more clearly apparent from a consideration of one embodiment of the invention. For this purpose, there is shown a form in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification. The form will now be described in detail, illustrating the general principles of the invention; but it is to be understood that this detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, since the scope of this invention is best defined by the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a pictorial view of a fur garment constructed in accordance with this invention, shown as being worn;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the fur skins making up the garment, or other fur piece; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view, taken along a plane corresponding to line 33 of Fig. 2, but omitting the lining of the garment.

The fur article illustrated in this instance is a coat 1, although the invention may be embodied in any fur piece, such as jackets, scarves, capes, or stoles.

The fur piece is made up of a plurality of longitudinally extending fur skins 2. These fur skins, as is well understood, are elongated by provision of transverse slits formed in the skin portion 3 of the fur skins. Since this process is well known, the seams connecting the edges of the slits are not indicated.

Each of the elongated elements 2 may be formed by a plurality of skins attached at their ends in any appropriate manner.

In order to obtain the benefits of this invention, their longitudinal edges are joined together in a special manner best illustrated in connection with Fig. 3. Thus, the longitudinal edges 4 are folded inwardly and underneath the skin portion 3 to form the rolled edge portions 7 so that the hairs at the rolled edge portions project laterally. Joining these longitudinal edges are joining members 5 attached, as by sewing 6, to the folded edges 4. These members 5 may be made of a firm fabric, or the like.

The rolled edge portions 7 of the adjacent skins produce a novel and pleasing result. This may be explained most clearly in connection with Figs. 2 and 3.

The joining member 5 is quite narrow, and the distance between the rolled edges 7 of adjacent skins is less than the length of the hairs projecting from the opposed rolled edges 7, but less than the combined length of the hairs. Accordingly, the hairs projecting laterally from the rolled edge portions 7 commingle along a narrow strip 0. Since the hair elements thus commingle, the effect is to provide a relatively dark or dense striation 8 between the longitudinal skins.

Beyond this relatively dense portion a, there are two adjacent portions b which represent relatively wide separations of the hair elements, and therefore the shading is lighter. This is indicated both in Figs. 2 and 3.

The central portion of each longitudinally extending fur skin is usually slightly domed, and usually has a natural coloring which gives a slightly darker striation 9 at the central domed portion.

Thus, due to this manner of construction, there are arranged in consecutive order a relatively dark striation a, a relatively light striation b, and then a graduated striation progressing from light to dark, corresponding to the crest of the fur skins.

The overall appearance of fur pieces joined together in this manner is striking. The dense striations or strips a form an attractive contrast to the remaining portions of the skins. Furthermore, the intimate commingling of the hairs at these strips a creates an impression of flufiiness that further enhances the appearance.

The inventor claims:

1. An article of manufacture, comprising a plurality of fur skins extending longitudinally; and intermediate joining members disposed between the longitudinal edges of adjacent skins; said skins at said edges being turned inwardly underneath the skins to form substantiallyrolled portions at the edges of the skins, the inwardly turned edges of adjacent skins being attached respectively to laterally spaced portions of the joining member between them, the inwardly turned edges of adjacent skins being spaced from each other in an amount in excess of the length of the hairs of the skins at the rolled portions and in an amount less than twice the length of said hairs to cause interleaving of the ends of the hairs at the rolled portions of adjacent fur skins.

2. A fur piece, comprising a plurality of fur skins extending longitudinally and side by side, the longitudinal edges being folded underneath the skin side to form substantially rolled portions at the edges of the skins; and longitudinal joining members extending between said inwardly folded edges, the inwardly folded edges of adjacent skins being attached respectively to laterally spaced portions of the joining member between them, the inwardly folded edges of adjacent skins being spaced from each other in an amount in excess of the length of the hairs of the skins at the rolled portion and in an amount less than twice the length of said hairs to cause interleaving of the ends of the hairs at the rolled portions of adjacent fur skins.

3. A fur piece, comprising a plurality of separate fur skins, opposed edges of adjacent skins being turned to cause some of the hairs near the edges to project substantially laterally of the skins; and an intermediate joining member interconnecting adjacent skins; opposed edges of adjacent skins being spaced from each other in an amount in excess of the length of the laterally projecting hairs and in an amount less than the combined length of laterally projecting hairs of adjacent skins to cause the ends of laterallyprojecting hairs of adjacent skins to interleave.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 281,886 Keller July 24, 1883 1,282,528 Biggs Oct. 22, 1918 1,373,341 McGenniss Mar. 29, 1921 1,558,279 Post Oct. 20, 1925 2,196,273 Schatz Apr. 9, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS 641,923 Germany Mar. 9, 1935 

